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<head>Constitut. Code.</head> | |||
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<p>Fiction, what. Falsehood <lb/> acknowledged, <gap/><lb/> from and acted on as <lb/> true.</p> | |||
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<p>Properties of falsehood in<lb/> this form<lb/> 1. Never employed but to<lb/> a bad thence in unjustifiable<lb/> purpose. No man<lb/> employs falsehood when<lb/> truth will serve.<lb/> 2. Capable of being employed<lb/> to every bad purpose.<lb/> 3. Never, but with bad<lb/> effect.<lb/> 4. Evidence conclusive<lb/> of the mischievousness<lb/> of the exercise of power<lb/> supported by it.<lb/> 5. So of the the inaptitude<lb/> of the form of government.<lb/> 6. So of moral depravity<lb/> in the inventory.<lb/> 7. So in the constituted<lb/> employers.<lb/> 8. So of intellectual<lb/> weakness in the acquiescing <lb/>nation.</p> | |||
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<p>Inventors and employers —<lb/> lawyers, viz.<lb/> 1. Judges<lb/> 2. Law writers.</p> | |||
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<p>Persons to whose sinister<lb/> interest sinister<lb/> service has been rendered <lb/>by it.<lb/> 1. The inventors.<lb/> 2. The monarch, whose<lb/> removable creatures<lb/> they were.</p> | |||
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<p>The sinister service is<lb/> 1. Particular; enabling<lb/> the inventor in each<lb/> instance to operate<lb/> the injustice, of which<lb/> it was made the instrument.</p> | |||
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<p>2. General: contributory<lb/> to <sic>encrease</sic> in the<lb/> people the intellectual<lb/> weakness, on which<lb/> their obsequiousness<lb/> to it depends.<lb/> 2. Their demoralization,<lb/> by causing them to attribute<lb/> to their rulers<lb/> the power of converting <lb/> vice into virtue; and<lb/> thus to entertain a propensity<lb/> to the practice<lb/> of it.</p> | |||
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1822 Aug. 9 Constitut. Code.
1.
Fiction, what. Falsehood
acknowledged,
from and acted on as
true.
2.
Properties of falsehood in
this form
1. Never employed but to
a bad thence in unjustifiable
purpose. No man
employs falsehood when
truth will serve.
2. Capable of being employed
to every bad purpose.
3. Never, but with bad
effect.
4. Evidence conclusive
of the mischievousness
of the exercise of power
supported by it.
5. So of the the inaptitude
of the form of government.
6. So of moral depravity
in the inventory.
7. So in the constituted
employers.
8. So of intellectual
weakness in the acquiescing
nation.
3.
Inventors and employers —
lawyers, viz.
1. Judges
2. Law writers.
4.
Persons to whose sinister
interest sinister
service has been rendered
by it.
1. The inventors.
2. The monarch, whose
removable creatures
they were.
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5.
The sinister service is
1. Particular; enabling
the inventor in each
instance to operate
the injustice, of which
it was made the instrument.
6.
2. General: contributory
to encrease in the
people the intellectual
weakness, on which
their obsequiousness
to it depends.
2. Their demoralization,
by causing them to attribute
to their rulers
the power of converting
vice into virtue; and
thus to entertain a propensity
to the practice
of it.
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